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Chavez-US: World belongs to people

Caracas, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez condemned the US government for holding five Cuban antiterrorism fighters kidnapped while it protects Luis Posada Carriles, one of the most dangerous terrorists on the planet.

In an address opening the First Ibero American Meeting of Cooperatives, Chavez, once more, made it clear that Posada Carriles blew a Cuban passenger airliner in mid-air in 1976.

"Washington shelters the most dangerous terrorist of all times in this region, the same person who directed the political police and a squad of kidnappers who tortured and abducted people," pointed out Chavez.

However, "imperialism is increasingly being exposed and outstripped by its own immoralities, facing internal and external crisis," he noted.

The leader of the Bolivarian Revolution said US presidents think the world is their backyard, but really, he said, "it belongs to us, the people."

He described the US administration as genocidal, murderous, terrorist and violator of human rights, and referred to the "Mar del Plata Battle," where five presidents (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela) resolutely halted the imperialist crusade to impose the feeble Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

That was a battle, he said, "but the struggle continues" with the rights of emerging political, social, cooperative, indigenous, workers, female, student, farmer and landless movements.

"Imperialism threatens Venezuela by trying to eliminate, stop and destroy the Bolivarian Revolution to give a blow to nascent movements in Latin America," pointed out Chavez.